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Green subsidies for wind farms must be scrapped because turbines are blighting local communities, the new Environment Secretary said on Tuesday

‘Soviet-Style’ Wind Farm Subsidies To Face The Axe



“Soviet-style” green subsidies for wind farms must be scrapped because turbines are blighting local communities, the new Environment Secretary said on Tuesday. Owen Paterson, who took on the role last month, said wind developers should “stand on their own two feet” instead of asking for money from the state. He said green technologies such as wind farms might actually have a worse impact than climate change, because they are causing “public insurrection”. --Rowena Mason, The Daily Telegraph, 10 October 2012
So long as I am the Energy minister, the high-flown theories of cognitive bourgeoisie left academics will not over-ride the interests of ordinary people who need fuel for heat, light, and transport – energy policies, you might say, for the many not the few. --John Hayes, Minister of State for Energy, 9 October 2012 The Coalition is putting an end to the "never-ending gravy train of green subsidies" in a bid to bring down energy bills, the climate change minister has said. Mr Barker promised the Coalition would "cut subsidy where we can and put value for money at the heart of our policies". --Rowena Mason, The Daily Telegraph, 10 October 2012

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Senior Tories are at odds over the environment amid fears that climate change sceptics in the government are seeking to slow the pace of the introduction of renewable energy. The contrasting messages from the two ministers highlighted sharp divisions within the government over climate change in the wake of the recent cabinet reshuffle. Owen Paterson has been praised by the former chancellor Lord Lawson of Blaby, who is a sceptic. --Nicholas Watt, The Guardian, 10 October 2012 What should Prime Minister David Cameron say about the environment and the green economy at the Conservative Party conference this afternoon? Given the shale gas mania that appears to have afflicted many of his Party colleagues, green business leaders might take a complete silence from the Prime Minister on environmental issues as a perverse sort of victory. --James Murray, Business Green 10 October 2012 No new carbon dioxide emissions reductions targets for 2030 will be announced until after the next EU parliamentary elections in 2014, the EU’s top climate civil servant has said. The announcement, which runs counter to soundings from Brussels insiders, could flag climate and energy battle lines for the next parliament, after a bruising round of squabbles over carbon prices in the Emissions Trading System (ETS). --EurActiv, 8 October 2012 Insulation does not always reduce heating energy demand in residential buildings. Its application can in fact increase the consumption of oil and gas. This is the result of a number of studies. The results raise the question whether the Federal Government’s green energy transition may fail in its objectives. Particularly explosive is a recently rediscovered study by the IBP Institute for Building Physics of the Fraunhofer Institute. Based on an detailed comparative analysis, scientists at the research institute in Stuttgart established in 1985 that, given average winter temperatures of minus four degrees Celsius, the use of insulating does not reduce heating energy consumption; compared to house with solid walls it rather pushes up energy consumption. --Die Welt, 8 October 2012 The new and improved global temperature database, Hadcrut4, has been updated at last. Previously it had been complete to 2010. When I first looked at Hadcrut4 I was aware that when the 2011 data was included it would almost certainly show a reduction in global temperature, and hence alter the tone of the implications that were inferred after its debut. I anticipate this trend to continue when the annual data for 2012 is complete making the global temperature standstill 16-years long. --David Whitehouse,The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 10 October 2012


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